Sunday, March 27, 2011

Uganda "Kill The Gays bill" Dies

Finally OUT of Africa: David Bahati, the minister of parliamentbehind Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Bill, suffered a big defeat.The so-called Kill The Gays bill, which seeks imprisonment forpracticing LGBT & execute repeat offenders, on the order ofPresident Yoweri Museveni, the Legal & Parliamentary AffairsCommittee has opted not to put the bill up for lawmakers whichends a 2 year attempted to further criminalize "aggravatedhomosexuality." Museveni, supposedly terminated the toxicbill. This does not, of course, mean gays in Uganda are safe:sodomy remains illegal there & it's possible Bahati or anotherhomophobe could take up a similar bill in the future.Just because 85 countries signed the United Nations resolutionpromising to support efforts to keeps LGBTs safe that Uganda'sLGBT will find themselves in the safety net of the internationalcommunity. Remember America's religious zealots, immune tostate pressure, helped create the Kill The Gays bill to start with.Listen to this exclusive audio byte with Rev. John Makokha ofKenya who talks about American fundamentalists ChristianEvangelists leaders importing homophobia to Africa.

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I’m really concerned about the American Fundamental Christian leaders who are very, very homophobic. I think what America needs to do is focus on what the bible says about human sexuality and gender identity and maybe try to reach out in Christian awareness and maybe have conferences with Fundamental Christian Religious leaders so they can tone down their red flags on homosexuality. I’m sorry to say it is a big concern in Africa that we respect each other's opinions but the Fundamentalist Evangelical Christian leaders from America have been transporting homophobia to Africa. The best example is the bill in Uganda and even in Kenya and other parts of Africa have been receiving big chunks of money to propagate heterosexuality and propagate homophobia.